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Why Trump, Chuck and Nancy face huge hurdles in infrastructure spending plan

CQ Budget Podcast, Episode 109

The Washington Monument can be seen as traffic travels over the Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge April 13, 2015. The bridge is one of 61,000 bridges across America that the Department of Transportation said were structurally deficient and in need of repair. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

By David Lerman, Peter Cohn and Toula Vlahou

Posted May 6, 2019 at 12:51pm

CQ budget and appropriations editor Peter Cohn games out the prospects of the ambitious $2 trillion infrastructure spending package touted by President Trump, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer. And we preview the week ahead in the appropriations process.

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